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...this is sheer genius.

Concept: TMA quotes but it's Barbie

Proof of concept:

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i love counterspell. "i cast fireball!" no you dont

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Here's a bit of a not-so-bad US voting day story.

When I went to vote last week, I wore a lanyard around my neck-- a lanyard with my work keys (since I'd just finished my shift), my house keys, and my dog tag, from my time in the army.

I was waiting in line to get in, and there was an elderly couple ahead of me. She was reading a notebook; he looked bored. He turned around a few times, just looking around. Then he looked at me a bit more closely and said, "Air Force?"

I shook my head, and said, "Army!"

He smirked, pointed at my dog tag, and said "Smarmy!"

I smirked back, pointed at his Air Force cap, and said, "Chair Force!"

The woman with him didn't look at either of us, just said, "Shut up, soldiers!" and we both laughed.

Then he said, "Fuck. Trump."

I said, "With a fire hydrant."

And then all three of us laughed.

Things aren't looking good, but it helps me feel a bit better to remember that not everyone voted for trash.

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My Human is Not

Written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly

Art by Sonny Liew

Star Trek: Waypoint Special #1

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Gillian Anderson on Dana Scully's iconic style

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Take Time To Smell The Flowers by Ron Guernsey

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i would KILL to be able to draw because. i'd just. trace this Entire Monologue as hunter owlhouse with the hexsquad or emerald entrails:

like this is so close to his canon dialogue already. oh my GOD

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you probably answered that already in one of the posts about austen characters and parenthood, but what about the Wickhams?

How do you think post-canon Lydia and George Wickham would go about the rearing of their eventual children?

I don't think I've answered this before. We know from the epilogue that Elizabeth and Jane support Lydia indefinitely, and I think because of that their children will be fine. I don't see the Wickhams being very good parents at all, though having kids does mature some people in surprising ways, but I think with support from the Darcys and Bingleys, their kids will get good educations and jobs.

In the Regency era (and today), people preferred to give charity as good and services (reference). For Lydia, whose husband has a gambling problem, this is actually the best approach. I'm sure Elizabeth and Jane would be happy to provide a nursemaid or governess or pay for the children's tuition to school, because that is something that Wickham can't touch. I can also see Darcy providing help with careers if the children are worthy of it, whether in the church or military or whatever.

As a mother, I think Lydia would be like Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby, in that you barely see her child except when she shows her off. I can't see Wickham caring for his kids much at all until his sons are old enough for him to introduce them to his vices. I hope they are wise enough to avoid it!

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This is a funny sign and all but I think the main takeaway should be that there is Dog English and Dog Welsh (Cimraeg?!?!?!?)

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could the beach painting not be intended as a somewhat ~racy~ depiction (see: the topless woman), hence the short/tight clothes?

oh it 1000% is

that is his Fantasy Version of Combinations, I'm convinced

it's like that one artist nobody now realizes loved to depict women half-dressed, because corset-covers look like tank tops to us and petticoats look like normal (even old-fashioned and concealing!) skirts. what was that guy's name? with all the blue silk?

...TOULMOUCHE

this woman is showing her underwear. a glimpse of petticoat might be fine, but Skirt Hiking To Reveal A Huge Amount? nope. that is a sexy painting.

Lounging About With My Bodice Inexplicably Open is a popular Toulmouche theme. the white "tank top" is also underwear. note the half-up hair- that is also sexy!

damnit, Toulmouche why is this lady sexy? there's a kid in the painting! have some decency! but no, Mama is praying with her child while inexplicably having removed specifically her bodice but not her skirt. nor has she just changed into nightclothes before putting the kiddo to bed like a normal person. also that is clearly her chemise and her skirt would not close over it without her corset on; the fat distribution would be all different.

this one is just gay. Mlle. Red is clearly into Mlle. Nightwear/Lingerie and her sexy 1880s pixie cut (I think? either that or her hair is blending REALLY well with the shadows). I'm here for it

"this letter is so distressing that I had to stop midway through getting dressed and put on my Bolero of Sadness. and lounge seductively against the screen. sad-ductively, I mean"

Get dressed to the point of putting bodice on

do not put bodice on

don Tiny Vest

pin roses to corset cover that would 100% negate purpose of corset cover if actually attached to it

???

Toulmouche(TM)

Once again, that's not even her corset-cover. It's the top part of her combinations. how is her skirt fitting without the corset it was fitted on top of? Seamstresses Hate Local Painter Of Specific Fetish For This One Weird Fitting Trick!

(also, "you wanted to paint a woman in this one very particular unlikely undress state you find hot, but you painted her making out with a mirror and called it Vanity etc." there's actually a version of this called Vanity, and she's fully dressed. this one is The Mirror.)

I've got nothing. Extremely obvious late Victorian undergarment on top normal late Victorian skirt on bottom, fucking Renaissance Revival pearl-encrusted sleeves. Why not. Why, indeed, the fuck not.

WHAT IS WITH THE LITTLE VEST

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This morning there was a nation-wide text spam campaign targeting Black Americans (largely students) telling them that they’ve been selected to pick cotton and will be picked up to be sent to a plantation after Trump’s inauguration.

People online are making jokes about it, but it’s genuinely a disturbing sign. Someone was emboldened enough to intentionally run a background on thousands of young Black people and send them racist messages the day after a very exhausting and stressful election.

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Devastate your partner’s character in twelve words or less.